Stories by Colubrina

The Spy Who Slept in the Cold by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione is working as a spy, hidden among the staff at Alecto Carrow's house. A very brief Voldemort wins AU.

Something New at Christmas by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger have been living in a tent together, working together, fighting the good fight against Voldemort together. They've become friends who can tease each other and now it's Christmas and Draco wants to make sure she's got a present to open. Very much fluffy. All is happiness here.

Like Brothers by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Minerva McGonagall steps in on the awful night the Potters are murdered and arranges to have Harry Potter raised by Sirius Black and his somewhat cousins, the Malfoys. Draco and Harry grow up as almost brothers and everything - well, almost everything - is different. Gryffindor!Draco. Dramione. AU. COMPLETE.

Drabbles and Assorted Ficlets by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Assorted drabbles and ficlets with various pairings.

Dramione Drabbles & Ficlets by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

A series of drabbles and short ficlets. All dramione pairing, ranges from fluffy to angsty.

We Don't Need You by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Albus Dumbledore shows up on Petunia Dursley's doorstep with a baby, a couple of Aurors, and Severus Snape in tow. Harry needs the home blood relatives to be safe, but, to be clear, that does not include Vernon. (ONE SHOT)

We Don't Need You by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Albus Dumbledore shows up on Petunia Dursley's doorstep with a baby, a couple of Aurors, and Severus Snape in tow. Harry needs the home blood relatives to be safe, but, to be clear, that does not include Vernon.

A Midwinter Night's Dream by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

A holiday party at work goes astray when a sip of eggnog sends both Hermione and Draco into an enchanted wood. To escape, they'll have to forgive the past.

But the Darkness Alters by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Neville Longbottom wasn't chosen to be the hero. Draco didn't even try out. But when the war is over and the nightmares begin, the two of them, along with Hermione, will do whatever they need to to ensure another Dark Lord doesn't rise from the ashes. Road to hell, and all that...

The Wiltshire Space Station by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione Granger agrees to go undercover to Voldemort Inc. as one of their unskilled grunts to get to the Wiltshire Space Station and look for proof of the company's malfeasance. When she manipulates her way into teaching the Station Executive's son, Draco Malfoy, how to survive planetside, she learns more than she bargained for. Non-Magical SFF AU. ABANDONED.

The Moth by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

It's one of Voldemort's Dark Revels, and Luna has a gift for him.

Rewind by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

The discovery of an old spell book leads Hermione and Draco risk it all to stop the Dark Lord. ONE-SHOT.

The Wand by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco Malfoy is hired by the Ministry to track down a missing relic worth killing for. Hermione Granger might be his best lead, or might be behind the string of bad luck that trips up anyone who goes near the thing. COMPLETE.

A Constellation Name by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

It had been one night and Draco Malfoy had gone out of his way to make sure she didn't expect it to be any more than that. Still, she probably should have told him about their daughter. DRAMIONE. (Plus drabbles of their child.)

Treachery by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

The war has dragged on into a stale détente until Draco Malfoy Snatches Hermione Granger from a Muggle park. His plans could upset the balance of the war, tipping things toward the light. What Hermione doesn't expect is that he'll upset her treacherous heart as well. DRAMIONE. ONE-SHOT.

Unlikely Brothers by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Harry ends up back in time on the steps of Wool's Orphanage. Raised in institutional squalor with Tom Riddle, he has a very different attitude toward magic, Hogwarts, and friendships. dark!harry, brotp!tomarry. ABANDONED (sorry - just wasn't fun to write once they left Hogwarts)

A Little Education by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Tom Riddle and Hermione Granger are graduate students in the same psychology program. When they get caught in a blizzard on the way to a conference, the only hotel has but one room left. And it only has one bed. Whatever will happen? Non-magical AU. COMPLETE

Thicker than the Water of the Womb by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

A Ministry official arrives on Andromeda Tonks doorstep, Draco Malfoy held by the wrist. His parents aren't fit, the official says. Well, tell Andromeda something she doesn't know. ONE SHOT.

Christmas Aftermath by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

After packing away her Christmas decorations, Hermione heads down to the pub for dinner and a pint. A packed room results in her sharing a table with Draco Malfoy. ONE SHOT.

Unlikely by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione Granger doesn't believe the results of her Divination project. After all, how likely would it be that Draco Malfoy is her one true love? But then, years later, she goes to a Christmas wedding and what is unlikely may well be what is also true. ONE SHOT. DRAMIONE.

Christmas Eve Wine by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Relationships shatter at Christmas, but they also begin. ONE-SHOT.

The Pretense by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Voldemort died, but the Death Eaters live on. Hermione Granger traded herself to Draco Malfoy in exchange for safe passage for core Order members. Now he's pretending to love her, Narcissa is pretending to believe that, and Hermione is walking a tightrope behind enemy lines as she figures out what is going on. Unfortunately, people fall off tightropes. (no non-con)

Things in Common by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Ginny's resentment at her family's poverty explodes while shopping for school supplies. Under the cover of her mother's embarrassment, Lucius Malfoy slips a diary into her cauldron and suggests she'd be welcome in his home. Throw in a sorting into Slytherin and let the dark games begin. Slytherin!Ginny, Dark!Ginny, AU. COMPLETE.

An Inconvenient Marriage by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco's been sitting in jail, waiting for his one-way trip to Azkaban after the Battle of Hogwarts. It isn't a place that breeds hope so he doesn't pay much attention when Ginny Weasley shows up insisting he was a hero.He knows he wasn't &,besides, people are only released into the custody of non-Death Eater spouses. It's not going to work. Then she claims they're married. COMPLETE

Just a Little Flea Bite by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

The rats of London are food for fleas spreading a new magical malady. When Hermione Granger gets bitten, Harry Potter has to ask Draco for help. A somewhat unfortunate take on the soulmate trope ONE SHOT.

Hope is the Thing That Kills by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

His contact is late, his feet are cold, and Draco Malfoy is afraid. A tropey order-spy sort-of-dramione one-shot.
The cliched coffee shop and college non-magical AU literally no one was asking for. ONE-SHOT

What He Needs by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Rey appears with an unexpected - but not wholly unwelcome - request for General Hux. ONE-SHOT

The Past No Longer Is by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Astoria Malfoy wants a child. She has a time-turner. What could go wrong? A one shot inspired by Cursed Child.

After the Thames by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco and Theo come across Hermione Granger throwing rocks into the river several years after the war. They'd had an odd connection that had started in the library at Hogwarts but nothing really began until after the Thames. COMPLETE

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A Very Granger Reunion by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

When Hermione sets out to meet her tiresome cousins for their annual reunion dinner she knows it will be a chore. But she didn't expect to find herself at the restaurant with Blaise, who for some unknowable reason of his own was flirting with her cousins, an ugly dress, no contacts, a missing Draco, and a mouse who was, she assumed, quietly getting drunk in her purse. COMPLETE

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The Wrong Strain by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Everyone knew what veela were. Veela were magical creatures, breathtakingly beautiful, who captivated men with a single look. It would have been nice to have been that strain. Instead, Hermione Granger was infected by another. Instead of captivating all men, she was captivated by one. She'd die without him. She was already in almost constant pain. DRAMIONE. COMPLETE.

Sublimation by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

A story that never happened about people who don't exist in an alternate universe where Tom Riddle and Draco Malfoy live and breathe and work together. It isn't pretty, but then love never is. Or is it hate? And can you even tell when the knife is at your throat and you aren't backing away, when you've dug your nails into your palms and all you can say is, "Please." AU.

Pygmalion by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

When Tom Riddle walked through a doorway one fall afternoon everything changed and he found himself in a world wholly unprepared for him. "Something about you makes my brain itch," Hermione Granger said. "As if an earthquake had shifted everything sharply two feet to the left and then back again and it didn't all fit back quite right." Tomione. AU. COMPLETE.

Responsibility by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

You loved him. You betrayed him. You go on. You think, sometimes, that Judas had it easier. ONE SHOT.

No Greater Love by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Voldemort has won, or mostly, and Death Eaters don't have a retirement plan so Draco Malfoy is stuck serving a master he hates. He and Blaise Zabini just try to keep their heads down and not attract attention. They aren't heroes. Then Hermione Granger gets Snatched and they make the fateful, stupid decision to save her. COMPLETE

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Stalwart and True by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Voldemort has won and, like most members of the opposing side, Hermione has been captured and thrown into a cell. When she's finally dragged out after months the last thing she expects is to find herself facing Theodore Nott. He wants her help in a dystopian world, but can she trust him when he has a Dark Mark burned on his arm? Theomione. COMPLETE

If I'm Gonna Fall in Love by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco had made a list of everything he needed to fall in love. She had to be beautiful, and deferential, and from a good family. She had to be someone his parents would like, someone his friends would approve of. But how was he supposed to meet the perfect girl if he kept getting caught up in arguments with Potter's bushy-haired sidekick? Dramione. ONE SHOT.

Things in Common by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Ginny's resentment at her family's poverty explodes while shopping for school supplies. Under the cover of her mother's embarrassment, Lucius Malfoy slips a diary into her cauldron and suggests she'd be welcome in his home. Throw in a sorting into Slytherin and let the dark games begin. Slytherin!Ginny, Dark!Ginny, AU.

Roommates (A Prequel to Housemates) by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Abraxas Malfoy and Tom Riddle are roommates at Avon Fields Boarding School. Non-magical AU

Burn It All by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione remembers everything one day as a nurse stands in front of her, tray with bland food and medication held in her hands. The memory makes her angry. So angry. Fortunately, she has a friend in the hospital with her and he's happy to help her. ONE SHOT

The Drinny Thing by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco Malfoy has two problems. His family reputation is in tatters and he wants to make sure he's never at the mercy of a crazed Dark Lord accomplish the second, he plans to take over wizarding fix his family's standing, he wants to marry Ginevra Weasley, pureblood and war heroine. Now all he has to do is convince her, and that might be the harder goal. COMPLETE

Not the Worst Thing by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

A year after the Battle of Hogwarts everyone decides they'll go out to celebrate. Too much alcohol and an accidental bonding ceremony later and Draco and Hermione need to figure out how to escape a marriage neither wants. Dramione. ONE-SHOT.

half a sorrow by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

8th year Theo/Hermione romance with high quality alcohol, expensive sheets, and beautifully hand-illustrated star charts. Also bitterness, depression, and rage. You know, the normal stuff. COMPLETE.

Rebuilding by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts to help rebuild the shattered castle the summer after the war. She and the other summer resident - and eventually their friends - have to come to terms with how the war broke more than just the walls of the building. Follows multiple Hogwarts students through '8th year' and one additional year of early adulthood. COMPLETE.

No One Minds by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione and Draco are Head Boy and Head Girl in a Voldemort-free AU world of silly fluffs. Will she let him take her to the Halloween Masque? Will Pansy's high heels trip her up before she asks her own crush out? And would someone tell Theo that's not appropriate in public? Winner Best Head Boy/Head Girl fic in the "Something Wicked This Way Comes" Dramione fanfic awards, 2016.

Astoria-After by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Astoria's memories all disappear, but why, and who stands to benefit? This is an AU fic where I've played fast and loose with all sorts of things, starting with the age difference between Astoria and Draco, moving on to the way in which Tom Riddle is not so nice, and just continuing on from there. Drastoria. ABANDONED.

half a sorrow by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

8th year Dramione work-in-progress with no update schedule or acceptable summary. It does include, however, high quality alcohol, expensive sheets, and beautifully hand-illustrated star charts. Also bitterness, depression, and rage. You know, the normal stuff.

Without Her Letter by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

A decision is made to protect Muggle-borns from the continual war by not inviting them to Hogwarts. This was, perhaps, not a wise choice. Hermione Granger was certainly not amused. Dramione. AU. COMPLETE.

Madness in Love by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

With the Order of the Phoenix recast in popular opinion as dangerous, a law is put into effect to have them work off their debt to society via what is termed 'good, honest labor' and it leaves Hermione Granger sitting in Draco Malfoy's parlor as a smirking Ministry official condemns her to be her former enemy's slave. Dramione. COMPLETE.

Sunshine and Tomatoes by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Theodore Nott had every intention of ignoring the Marriage Law - the very idea the government could force him to get married was absurd - until Luna Lovegood smiled at him in the dingy office, tomatoes in her hair. ONE-SHOT.

A Big Ball of Wibbly-Wobbly by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

The war is over, the good guys have won, and Hermione Granger goes to sleep in her lovely flat only to wake up in 1953 in the bed of someone she'd really much rather were dead. "I'm working on the 'kill Lord Voldemort now, work out the temporal paradox issues later' plan," she tells him. He laughs. Tomione. COMPLETE

The Volunteer by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

He took her soul when she was eleven. She'd poured it out and he'd drunk it up and poured a little bit of his own back into her and that little bit grew and grew. What happens to the possessed if the demon isn't wholly killed? ONE SHOT.

After the Sea by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco and Hermione have become friends, and more than, when, after a weekend at the shore with Theo Nott, things start to get complicated, especially when they have him move into their flat. Triad. COMPLETE.

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A Nose That Can See by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione Granger has found herself inexplicably tossed back into time to Tom Riddle's Hogwarts. And he's a Veela and, wouldn't you know it, she's his mate. Could life get worse? But he seems to have an endless supply of out-of-season fruit so it can't be all bad, right? Tomione. Major character death, musical theater, and all that fruit. COMPLETE.

The Muddy Princess by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Just another Pureblood!Hermione story. A hidden adoption revealed, a brother found, a new world to figure out: "What are you hoping for?" he asked as they stood ready to do the spell. "I don't know," Hermione admitted. "You?" His knuckles were white on his wand. "A sister," he said, his voice very low, "I'm hoping for a sister." Winner 2015 Energize WIP Awards. COMPLETE.

The Ones Who Ran by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

When the impossible happens and the bad guys win, would-be-heroes are thrown together with terrified partners in a plan none of them really want. "I know I'm part of what must be the worst day of your life," he said. "I know I'm the enemy. But, I swear, I'm not going to hurt you." Theo/Luna. Draco/Hermione. Blaise/Ginny. COMPLETE.

They Have All Lied by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

The worst thing wasn't that no one seemed to care. The worst part wasn't that she was scolded for trusting a magical diary. The worst part was that she missed him.

Housemates by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione Granger, graduate student, needs a cheap apartment that is free of excessive cats, groping men, or weird smells. Abraxas Malfoy wants another housemate. The only problem is Tom Riddle. AU. Really AU. No, really. COMPLETE.

The History Project by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco Malfoy finds a way to magically write notes in History of Magic but the only person the spell will work with is Hermione Granger, or so he claims. Continued from a series of drabbles that got out of control. AU. Dramione. COMPLETE

Lady of the Lake by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione and Draco team up after the war to overthrow the Order and take over wizarding Britain. They have plans and they'll get power, but the cost of victory may be higher than they expected and more than they can bear. Dark Dramione. COMPLETE

Only a Nobleman by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

You won't like this. It's a Regency-esque AU romance between original characters and a sequel to a fanfic, Bodyguard of Lies, that irritated almost everyone. Also, the chapters are too short and eventually it'll have this smut in a way that is wholly incidental to the plot and far too BDSMy for most people. COMPLETE.

When She Drowned by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Desperate men shape Hermione Granger into a weapon and send her back in time to offer salvation to Tom Riddle or, failing that, to kill him. But tools that can think are dangerous and sometimes a sacrifice decides she's lost enough. COMPLETE

Fairy Stone by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco is sentenced to one year in Azkaban, release contingent upon someone willing to vouch for his good behavior. Hermione does. "Oh, I want you," he said. "You, just you, always you. You forever and you for always and you until the bloody sun explodes." Dramione. COMPLETE.

The Green Girl by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione is sorted into Slytherin; how will things play out differently when the brains of the Golden Trio has different friends? AU. Darkish Dramione. COMPLETE.

A Bodyguard of Lies by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Voldemort has won, a new world order is in place, and while darkness reigns small pockets of resistance continue to battle for the light. Draco Malfoy has been sent by his commanding officer to Scotland to stamp some of those last efforts out but what will happen when he reconnects with Hermione Granger, resistance fighter? A collaboration with dulce de leche go. AU. Dark Dramione.

Dark Cherry Chapstick by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hermione returns for an optional 8th year after the war and Draco Malfoy, also back at Hogwarts at his mother's request, notices she's changed. A brief dip into the 'makeover' trope AND the 'goth' trope in one fic. ONE SHOT. Dramione.

Mermish by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

When Luna Lovegood and Theodore Nott use the same tree to read under during her fifth year they become friends but can romance survive when you're on different sides of a looming war? ONE SHOT.

The Diary We Carry by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

If memory is the diary we carry about with us, what happens if we misplace it? Hermione Granger wakes up in a hospital with almost no recollection of who she is or either of the two men claiming to be her fiancé. "What's the last thing you remember?" The Healer pressed on through his little quiz and now things were really bad. "I… nothing," she said finally. COMPLETE

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A Fine Institution by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

When the marriage law fic trope came beating at my brain, what could I do but give in to its brutal demands. Marriage law: now with curry, candy and artificial insemination. As Hermione said, it could have been worse. COMPLETE

Protective Custody by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

After the war the Ministry decided that all children and most wives of Death Eaters needed to be placed in 'protective custody' with 'trustworthy citizens' but no one wanted Draco Malfoy. AU. Dramione. COMPLETE

Before Afterwards by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco and Hermione have been talking about nothing important, carving out trivial space during their 6th year of school in order to escape from the looming war, when, one night, they break the unspoken rule to keep it light. ONE SHOT. Dramoine.

The Die by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Years after the war is over Hermione sees Draco alone in a pub. When she invites him back to her flat the die is cast and it becomes possible that two very damaged people might, eventually, find peace. "You know me dark, you know me cruel, you know me shaking in the night and you're still here." Dramoine. COMPLETE

Roofies, or In Vino, Veritas by Colubrina Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco Malfoy rescues a rather inebriated Hermione Granger after he sees someone slip something into her drink. Drunken conversation ensues. Dramoine. ONE SHOT.